The Stone Girl

So many twists and turns, plot was very surreal!  Loved the characters, Evie and Luann became my best friends as they have the grit and brains of the kind of people I like.  Author wrote characteristics of the men that made me really dislike them, except for Dill.  I could actually visualize the mountain scenes, New York and Valhalla!  This is a book I will highly recommend to friends and family for an awesome and intense read!  Nice job, Dirk Wittenborn!

The main characters of this book are two very different women, who build a lifetime friendship together.  Through their joint efforts they try to right the wrongs to many women, including themselves.  The storyline never stops and holds the readers interest  from beginning to end.  While the Stone Girl is a broken statue, she represents how broken things can be repaired, but somehow are really never quite the same.

Such a good read on many levels. The characters grew and were entirely empathetic. The issues raised were credible. The ongoing suspense built and so it became a book you couldn't put down One of my best reads so far this year

Let's start here with this: "The cruelest thing you can do to a wild animal is capture it alive."
This sets not only the setting but the underlying theme or tone if you will for this entire novel.
Dark, twisted, disturbing, with a slow sizzle that burns so hot it's inflamed in every artery with a mountainside massacre that involves 4 men dead, 1 missing,& a mystery woman as the lone survivor.
"Three women scarred by a chain of misogyny and death at the hands of a secret brotherhood seek a reckoning." With rape, suicide, and other abusive and horrific actions that leave readers gasping for justice.
This is one of those thrillers that takes an extremely long time to get moving, jumping, and shaking but when it does it's like the tango dance connecting and illuminating the dance floor from end to end.
The Stone Girl begins with The Lost Boys ".. a conspiracy of men who help each other marry very wealthy women so their friends can steal from their wives."
Now, this is enough to make my blood curl but then we learn that 5 wealthy men may have killed Clare Loughton.
The reasoning behind such a fate lies in the trail of money or lack thereof and it all points to scheming, conniving, frauds.
Lost Boys are nothing more than grown men who inflict pain on women and Evie was once such woman who may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
She's a tough and tenacious woman who wanted to even the score.
Which leads to the ultimate question: Did Evie Quimby take down and kill Callum Dolenz, Peter Shandly, Kenneth Strauss, Thomas Reynolds, and last but certainly not least of the hated organization was Winthrop Langley (aka Win)?
You see seventeen years ago Win killed someone and put his body -in of all things- a wedding dress.
It turns out that Clare -the wife of a hunter- drowned in less than 2 feet of h20 or so it's claimed as a suicide.
Now we have an out of control situation involving Langley and his retched and despicable past that falls into the hands of Evie to confront and conquer.
Oh, snap...Wait ...Breaking News!
Evie did what? To Whom?
Oh shiite-she didn't .....there may be more to this story than meets the eye and a possible confession may be lurking in the shadows of justice being served up.
"Merry Christmas, you filthy animal..."
Man that was one hot mess and I loved it!
Thank you to Dirk, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.

This was everything you want in a great summer thriller: friendship, money, corruption, suspense, and revenge. Strong female characters drive the plot and you feel transported to the Adirondacks, New York, and Paris. 

Thank you to W.W. Norton & Company and NetGalley for providing this ARC in exchange for my opinion.